Yayoi (given name)
Yayoi is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
Yayoi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:- 弥生, "March"
- 彌生, "extensive, life"
People with the name
- Yayoi Jinguji, Japanese voice actress
- Yayoi Kitazume, Japanese composer
- Yayoi Kobayashi, Japanese women's footballer
- Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist
- Yayoi Matsumoto, Japanese swimmer
- Yayoi Nagaoka, Japanese speed skater
- Yayoi Watanabe, Japanese actress
- Yoshioka Yayoi, Japanese physician and women's rights activist
Fictional characters
- Yayoi Kise, aka Cure Peace from the shoujo anime Smile PreCure!
- Yayoi, the main heroine of the manga series Mugen Spiral
- Yayoi Tsubaki, a character in the fighting game series BlazBlue
- Yayoi Fujisawa, a character in the anime series Stellvia of the Universe
- Yayoi Inuzuka, a character in the light novel, manga, and anime series Kure-nai
- Yayoi Matsunaga, a character in the anime series Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective
- Yayoi Yukino, the main character in the anime series Queen Millennia
- Yayoi Kamishiro, a main character and possible love interest in the video game Lux-Pain
- Yayoi, the landlady and "mother" of Hiroe Ogawa in the hentai anime and manga F3: Frantic, Frustrated & Female
- Yayoi Aoba, a character of the manga and anime series Captain Tsubasa
- Yayoi Shinozuka, a character of the visual novel series White Album
- Yayoi Shioiri, a character in the manga Loveless
- Yayoi Takatsuki, a character in the video games series THE iDOLM@STER
- Yayoi Kunizuka, a character in the light novel, manga and anime series Psycho-Pass
- Yayoi Ulshade/KyoryuViolet II, a character in the tokusatsu series "Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger"
- Yayoi Kuribayashi, a character from the manga and anime series ''Mouse''